John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield

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This portrait is mentioned by Lawrence in a letter of 19 May 1819 to Farington, quoted by Williams. A copy is in a Scottish private collection.

Referenceback to top

Armstrong 1913
Sir W. Armstrong, Lawrence (1913), p 115.

'Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence', Walpole Society, XXXIX (1962-4), 38.

Garlick 1954
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence (1954), p 28.

Gower 1900
Lord R. Gower, Sir Thomas Lawrence (1900), p 112.

Williams 1831
D. E. Williams, The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1831), II, 145.

Physical descriptionback to top

Healthy complexion, brown eyes and hair. Dressed in a white stock, with gold pin, white shirt, dark coat or waistcoat, and loose red coat with fur neck and cuffs. Background colour brown and greenish-grey.

Provenanceback to top

The sitter, bequeathed by his widow, Georgiana, Lady Bloomfield, 1905.

Exhibitionsback to top

RA, 1820 (88).


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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